Halloween decorations seem to have increased both in frequency and size this year. We went for a walk the other day to admire some of them. Here’s some photos.
Many houses that decorate will have pumpkins on their porch, perhaps a few little ghosts hanging from a tree, and maybe a skeletons or skull in their window. This house went all-in with a full-sized skeleton and a gigantic spider web that spans their entire front yard. This isn’t even the biggest web near us: another house covered almost the entire front of the house with a massive web!
This one is a bit low effort but made us laugh: (rubber) body parts scattered on the lawn. On a dark night I think this could be quite scary for a young child, which I feel is in the ‘true’ spirit of Halloween
Just down the street from us they built a small graveyard in their yard which looks great amongst the fallen leaves. As you can see the dead are escaping and climbing a nearby tree. This is illuminated with spooky red lights at night and looks great.
The place around the corner has two massive inflatables (one is Hogwarts!), a looming skeleton with animated eyes and dozens of smaller statues all throughout the yard. Trick-or-treaters will walk through the purple house on their way to the front door. All this is lit at night and accompanied by spooky music.
The place down the road that did tennis playing skeletons years ago now have an incredible Ghostbusters scene. The backpacks and ‘slimer’ ghost are all homemade from cardboard and styrofoam and (we think) the beams light up at night. This is amazingly well done and the sort of display that could win a Halloween decoration contest!
A few blocks away, in front of a house that looks like it could legitimately be haunted, are the biggest decorations we’ve ever seen. Jack Skellington here is 13 feet tall (I checked!) and animated, and only one of five different enormous statues they have in their front yard.
This demon has light-up eyes and towers over me. It’s legitimately creepy and I imagine kids will love it.
And as you can see this headless horseman is almost life-sized as well. I checked online to find a price and there seems to be a few different similar models but even the cheapest is almost $400. And this is just one of five in this houses front yard!
Inflatables remain common, but perhaps not as much as they used to be. Here’s the display in front of our fire station, which as usual will have a haunted house installation this year for parents to take their kids to on Halloween. I like the sausage dog, with a sign (‘Happy Halloweiner‘) that seems removable so he can remain out with his pilgrim hat on as a thanksgiving ornament.
And what of us? It’s been several years since we out any non-pumpkin decorations out, but we splurged this year on our first ever set of lawn flamingos! Of the zombie kind…
Here they are installed next to the creepy face on the tree in our front yard. They’re black with blood red eyes and long sharp teeth, and probably should have been marketed as vampires and not zombies!
And here they are at night, basking in the glow from that demonic face. We won’t be home on Halloween night, but I hope at least one young trick-or-treater sees this and is momentarily spooked 🙂
